Someone needs to post that "Tom Tomorrow" cartoon, where the penguin concedes how the NRA has won and we just need to come to grips with the fact that we're going to have mass shootings every so often.

NEW YORK-Cheers filled the streets and American flags waved triumphantly through the air today as the nation turned out in full force to celebrate an entire week having passed since the last time a madman opened fire on innocent civilians in some kind of fatal mass shooting. "We did it, folks! We banded together and managed to go seven whole days without killing our fellow Americans in a senseless murdering spree!" Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said in a speech to jubilant throngs gathered in Times Square. "Yes, some people were shot this week, but not in a random, highly public, viscerally disturbing way and-most importantly-not all in one place, by one psychopath. Maybe one day we can live in a society where abominable large-scale gun violence stays out of the national headlines for a whole month even!" At press time, federal authorities had issued a reminder to all Americans that a lot can happen in 24 hours, "so let's not get too excited yet.

LineNoise:Local reports are saying it wasn't AT the ESB, just across the street, and appears to have been a targeted hit type thing, and most of the injuries being people caught in the gunfight with cops.

You mean a firefight with an armed gunman can result in innocent bystanders getting shot? I don't believe it.